James Freeman (1728 - 1763)

Born 5 Nov 1728 in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Deborah (Tasker) Bourne — married 1 Oct 1758 (to 27 May 1763) in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 27 May 1763 at age 34 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

James Freeman -- his name a necronym -- was the second of two sons of that given name, the first having died at age two in 1726, part of a terrible triple loss in the span of three days in which the twin of the earlier James, Rebecca; James; and their older sister Sarah, age five, were all taken. The later James of this profile was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, in early November of 1728, to Isaac Freeman and Bethiah (Sturgis) Freeman. After the death of his father in 1732, his mother returned to the area of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, from which she and Isaac had removed years before; she was remarried in the fall of 1735 to a gentleman named Job Gorham^[1] who had once been Isaac's rival for her affections.

In young adulthood, James made his way to Marblehead and there married Deborah Tasker, daughter of John Tasker, Esq., on the first day of October, 1758. The couple had two daughters, but Deborah was widowed nearly four months prior to the birth of the second: James died in late May of 1763. Deborah was remarried in the spring of 1768 to Col. William Bourne... with whose family the Freemans likely had some prior relationship, as the Colonel's mother was a member of of the Gorham family. Deborah was widowed for a second time in the summer of 1770; she lived until 1810.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, John Slaughter, Owner/Administrator; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Barnstable/Barnstable/MarriagesG.html

• Birth, parentage, and lineage; family facts: Freeman Genealogy in Three Parts, by Freeman, Frederick, Boston: Franklin Press, Rand, Avery, and Co., 1875, p. 62, p. 106; https://archive.org/stream/freemangenealogy1875free#page/62/mode/1up and https://archive.org/details/freemangenealogy1875free/page/106/mode/1up

• Marriage to Deborah Tasker at Marblehead, MA, 1 Oct. 1758: Massachusetts Vital Records Project, John Slaughter, Owner/Administrator; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Marblehead/aMarriagesF.shtml

• Death 27 May 1763 at Marblehead: Massachusetts Vital Records Project, John Slaughter, Owner/Administrator; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Marblehead/aDeathsF.shtml